House general calendar, 2015 March 24

HB 16
HB 34 HB 50
HB 54
HB 69 HB 81 HB 93
HB 115 HB 120 HB 126
HB 169
HB 182 HB 194 HB 196
HB 216 HB 219
HB 228 HB 231
HB 240
HB 243 HB 264 HB 267
HB 271 HB 280
HB 289
HB 295
HB 358 HB 364 HB 367 HB 377 HB 381 HB 405

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2015
THIRTY-FIFTH LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS Education; no high school which receives funding from Quality Basic Education Act shall participate in or sponsor interscholastic sports events unless students enrolled in magnet schools can participate under certain conditions; provide Georgia Right to Try Act; enact State property; statues, monuments, plaques, banners, and other commemorative symbols; provide additional protection Tuition grants; children of officers killed in line of duty who attend University System institutions and meet certain requirements; provide Motor Vehicle Event Data Recorder Act; enact Taxation; property; require confirmation of certain redemptions Motor vehicles; law enforcement retaining license plate data obtained from automated license plate recognition systems for certain periods; prohibit Foreclosure Cure Act; enact Local option sales tax; provide for an additional purpose for tax Motor vehicles; use of global positioning or navigation system mounts on windshields under certain circumstances; allow Motor vehicles; temporary operating permit when vehicle fails to pass federal emissions standards and certain conditions have been satisfied; provide Motor vehicles; acquisition of evidence; clarify provisions Elections; advance voting times and dates; revise Criminal procedure; reversal on appeal when a judge expresses an opinion regarding proof in a criminal case or as to accused's guilt; change provisions Occupational diseases; define certain terms; provisions Health; swimming pools; exempt certain privately owned pools from inspection and licensing requirements Sheriffs; collect and deposit certain fees; provide Property; state revenue commissioner to deduct certain funds from deposits to the state treasury; authorize Community Health, Department of; provide that at least two members of board shall also be members of state health plan; provisions Education Savings Account Act; enact Juvenile Code; voluntary acknowledgements of legitimation; repeal Property; witnessing requisites of deeds, mortgages, and bills of sale; change and clarify provisions Education; charter-schools-in-the-workplace; provide State Sexual Offender Registry; individual convicted of trafficking a person for sexual servitude; require registration Motor fuel tax; exemption for a limited period of time for certain public mass transit vehicles; extend Corporations, partnerships, and associations; change certain provisions relating to definitions; provisions Legislative Oversight Committee for State Contracts; establish Real estate transfer tax; change certain provisions Superior courts; fourth judge of Western Judicial Circuit; provide Courts; collection of delinquent fees and statutory surcharges; provide Revised Georgia Law on Notarial Acts of 2015; enact Contracts and marriage; change provisions relating to agreements required to be in writing; provisions

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HB 411
HB 414 HB 417 HB 422 HB 430 HB 450 HB 455
HB 483 HB 494
HB 500
HB 534 HB 541 HB 564 HB 578
HR 4 HR 71 HR 281
HR 419
HR 473 HR 613 HR 620 HR 642
SB 2 SB 4

Highways; provide maximum total gross weight for vehicles hauling unfinished wood products when traveling on noninterstate highways; provisions Education; collection and disclosure of student data; establish and implement policies and requirements Motor vehicles; require drivers to stop at crosswalks with pedestrianactivated rectangular rapid flash beacons; provisions Georgia Public Defender Standards Council; change council name to Georgia Public Defender Council Criminal procedure; search and seizure; revise and modernize law; provisions Food products; in-person sales of meat from certain requirements; exempt Motor vehicles and traffic; parking vehicle in manner preventing emergency vehicles from accessing private property without an identifiable driveway; prohibit State symbols; shoal bass as official state native riverine sport fish; designate Peace officers; retired officers shall not pay any fees or costs for any permit or card evidencing his or her registration or certification with Georgia Peace Officers Standards and Training Council; provide Employment security; services performed by individual for wages shall be deemed to be employment unless Department of Labor makes a contrary determination based on evidence submitted; provide Incest; relationships between relatives; change provisions Eminent domain; telephone companies; actual recurring local service revenues; specify accounts or portions thereof considered to be included Medical practice; physicians complete continuing education training on prescribing controlled substances and the development of addiction; require Public order; offense of harassing phone calls to offense of harassing communications; change
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS Municipalities; establish by local law an independent school system; authorize - CA House Study Committee on the HOPE Scholarship Program Award Amount for Critical Fields of Study; create Republic of Turkey and the Turkic American Federation of Southeast; recognize contributions; encourage creation of Georgian-Turkish Friendship Task Force United States Congress; extend authorization for Augusta Canal National Heritage Area to receive federal funding from the National Park Service through 2021; encourage Joint Study Committee on Cyber Security; create United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); withdraw the proposed Clean Air Plan; encourage Local boards of education; provide educational awareness regarding renewable energy; urge Joint Study Committee on Postsecondary Education and Employment Options for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities; create
SENATE BILLS Education; student who completes certain requirements relating to postsecondary coursework awarded a high school diploma Urban Redevelopment; provide for use of surface transportation projects; definitions; public contracts with private enterprises for completion

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SB 69 SB 72 SB 79 SB 88 SB 94 SB 95 SB 100 SB 101 SB 119 SB 125 SB 139 SB 169 SB 203
SR 26 SR 266 SR 267

State Defense Force; remove restrictions; rights of public officers and employees to be absent for service; reemployment rights "Tanja's Law"; provide measure of equivalency in punishment of crimes committed against police dogs in performance of their official duties Victim Compensation; expand the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council's powers and duties relative to claims Labor and Industrial Relations; provide for the payment of wages by credit to a payroll card; provisions Criminal Procedure; require a procedure for enhancing witness identification accuracy Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons; provide for acceptance of funds in a separate, federally insured account at financial institution by such persons Motor Vehicles and Traffic; provide for applicability with current federal reg. in the safe operations of motor carriers and commercial motor vehicles Soil Erosion and Sedimentation; provide for buffer against coastal marshlands within which certain land-disturbing activities are prohibited "Water Professionals Appreciation Day"; designate the first Monday in May of each year in Georgia State Road and Tollway Authority; authorize the collection of tolls for the management of traffic flow Selling and Other Trade Practices; provide regulation; auxiliary containers shall be done by general law Highways, Bridges, and Ferries; revise what constitutes part of the state highway system; appropriation of funds to Dept. of Transportation Georgia World War I Centennial Commission; create; membership, powers, and duties
SENATE RESOLUTIONS Joint House and Senate Coastal Greenway Study Committee; create Property Conveyance; authorizing 10 counties Public Property; granting of nonexclusive easements for the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities, utilities; 24 counties

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